Category: Positive Dog Training
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How to draw a cute dog?
Creating a cute dog drawing starts with clear choices about tools and a simple plan for shapes and expression to guide each mark. Materials and Tools Choose tools that match the scale and finish you want so the materials do not limit your approach. For traditional media, light sketching pencils, a soft eraser, a sheet…
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What is a Clicker? Why Should I Use It?
A clicker can mean a small handheld device, a smartphone app, or a simple sound used to mark or record an event during instruction, training, or presentation. Recognizing the range of forms helps you match a model to your setting and goals. What Is a Clicker? At its simplest, a clicker is a deliberate, repeatable…
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Food vs Play. What Does Motivate Dogs Stronger?
Dogs respond to a range of rewards, and the relative value of food versus play shapes training, wellbeing, and everyday interactions. Understanding which motivator is stronger for a particular dog helps owners and trainers choose the most effective strategies. Why motivation matters for dogs Reward value directly affects how quickly a dog learns new behaviors…
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A Baby and a Dog in the House. Can They Get along?
A baby and a family dog can occupy the same household, but their interactions involve distinct behaviors, environments, and responsibilities that caregivers should understand and manage carefully. How dogs and babies interact — Explains the basic behavioral dynamics and mutual influences to set expectations. Dogs commonly respond to infants in one of three ways: curiosity,…
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How to Train the Most Destructive Dog Ever?
Dogs can display behaviors that damage property or create safety risks, and it is important to focus on humane prevention and rehabilitation rather than causing harm. Ethical refusal and safer scope Intentionally training a dog to be destructive or to harm people or animals is unethical and, in many jurisdictions, contrary to veterinary and animal…
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Dog Training with Shaping
Shaping is a training method that builds a complex behavior by reinforcing successive closer approximations to a final target. It relies on breaking tasks into measurable steps and delivering timely reinforcement for progress. Definition and Core Idea of Shaping Shaping is an operant-conditioning technique that uses the principle of reinforcing successive approximations toward a defined…
